Coach Inc., is becoming very popular in Europe now, but it is been creating bags, luggage and accessories since 1941. The beginning of the brand started in New York, even though now their creations are around the globe.

I’ve a weekend bag, between some other purses, and wallets that I’ll show you soon, and I love it. It is very practical for those unexpected weekends… I encourage you to take a look at their website and discover the beauty of their designs.

domingo, 11 de diciembre de 2011

Many times we complain about the traffic that we find in big cities, like Madrid, Paris, Londres, New York or San Francisco. I’ve had the opportunity to see that traffic, in that cities and the one that India has. There’s no way we can compare them!

The hours that people in San Francisco spend travelling to work in the mornings or back home at night to arrive on time to work or dinner are nothing comparing with the hours you lose in an Indian road. Imagine the traffic of all these cities together and add the fact that there are not traffic rules. If you feel like it, because you see that there is a lot of traffic in your side of the road, you cross to the other one, whenever you want. Of course that creates a chaos. The traffic police, if you find them, don’t do anything. I don’t know if it is because they are desperate or because of the lack of training.

The trip from Agra to New Delhi took us more than 7 hours. It would normally take 2 hours and a half. We didn’t stop during that 7 hours, hoping to get to New Delhi on time to catch our flight to Saudi Arabia, flight that of course we missed. Please, if you are going to travel from Agra to New Delhi, don’t believe when they tell you: “Oh, the road is very good. If you go early you won’t find traffic”. Think about the worse, what means… finding goats in the road, “sacred” caws in the middle of the “highway”, extreme pollution, slammed that are unexpected, exorbitant heat… The train is better, despite the other inconvenient, that I’ll talk about soon.

The truth is that there are no words, no video cameras, no pictures that can explain what you live in the roads of India. You’ve to be there to believe all this. You have to get in the car with the hope that your driver is an experienced driver, and forget the fear of having an accident. Try to enjoy the fauna that you’ll find in the way, and try to imagine that you are in one of those Super Mario race cars, avoiding obstacles during the way. I think that would be the best way to describe the roads in India… it is like a Super Mario game.

Please, if any of you have experienced this before, do not hesitate to leave a comment. Thank you very much.

As a teenager, and in the era of no computers at home or at school for students in Europe, (I‘m talking about 20 years ago), I remember how much I enjoyed having in my hands a “Mapa Mundi”. Yes, one of that books full of maps, describing the geography and the names of the places that in other parts of the world existed. My dad had an old one, not too thick, not too thin, but big enough to make me dream about the places that in the future I wanted to visit.

I can remember the occasions where he would mention that as a young man he boarded a Scandinavian ship and travel to the north of Europe, escaping from the routine of life and thirsty for adventure. That was the time he would bring an English book with him and study it at nights, in the coldness of a moving cabin in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. As a waiter he liked to practice his English with the different travelers he met. I never expected I would have the desire, as he did, to learn a different language, but when I realized that could help me fulfill my dream of traveling to another countries, I couldn’t stop.

Between the places I dreamed of it was India. A far, far away country that I imagined would smell as spices, and it would be colorful as the rainbow. I could visualize the smile of the children, the bright colors of the fabrics, the elegance of the buildings, the sunsets, the crowded streets, and de cows, yes, the sacred cows.

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